Douluo Continent: An Adventure Begins in Wuhun City

The moment his fingers touched the spirit ring, it was as if some kind of restraint on Chen Yao's body shattered.

Immediately afterwards, an incomparably terrifying and violent soul power began to pour out from Chen Yao's body like a tidal wave!

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With Chen Yao's body, which has been tempered and almost completely reshaped, coupled with his first soul skill, Dark Body, he should theoretically be able to absorb this 20,000-year soul ring with ease.

However, when he absorbed the soul ring, a portion of his soul power was released, and Chen Yao had to divert his attention to control that surge of soul power.

It took nearly half a day to completely stabilize and adapt to that part of the soul power!

"Level 40..."

Feeling the sensation of having just broken through and immediately hitting a bottleneck, Chen Yao smiled and began to explore his newly acquired soul skill.

"It's actually a domain soul skill?"

The next moment, Chen Yao's mouth opened slightly, his face showing surprise.

The Thousand Generals Dark Soul Domain, based on the soul power of the domain lord, unfolds into a place shrouded in darkness, where light cannot penetrate.

Within the domain, the domain lord controls the Great Dark Heaven, increasing the power of soul skills by 30%, the range of soul skills by 30%, and reducing soul power consumption by 30%!

Those trapped experience increased soul power consumption and weakening of their soul power, with the extent of this weakening varying depending on the soul power of the domain's master.

Furthermore, its five senses, nine perceptions, and six consciousnesses are weakened or even completely sealed by the soul power of the domain master, forever sinking into darkness!

At the same time, a thousand eyeless, mouthless, noseless, and senseless soul generals guarded the domain, indiscriminately annihilating all life and spirit within it, protecting this peaceful and desolate land!

The strength of a Soul General increases along with the Soul Power of the Domain Master!

After fully understanding his third soul skill, the surprise in Chen Yao's eyes turned into shock.

Domain-type soul skills are the most advanced type of soul skills in the Douluo Continent. Even among the highest-ranking Title Douluos, not everyone possesses a domain-type soul skill.

And his field was far more terrifying than any other field he knew.

Perhaps Chen Yao's Thousand Generals Dark Soul Domain cannot achieve the same terrifying mowing effect on low-level Soul Masters as other domains.

However, if Chen Yao were to encounter an opponent of the same level or even stronger than himself, not to mention the thousand immortal soul generals, but relying solely on the negative buffs within this domain...

It can definitely achieve a surprise effect, allowing Chen Yao to gradually erode his strength and even turn the tables!

"Simply relying on the ten-thousand-year-old Soul Shadow Beast Soul Ring, it would be absolutely impossible for me to possess such a Soul Skill. This is probably due to the Dark Martial Soul, which seems to allow me to possess a unique and powerful Soul Ring based on its attributes and quality?"

The same was true of the previous Dark Body and the Core of the Evil.

Chen Yao lowered his head and looked down at the swirling darkness in his palm, and pondered.

Then, a smile appeared on Chen Yao's lips.

With the Black Zhe, a secret technique capable of achieving almost miraculous feats, Chen Yao had no need to worry about the quality of his spirit rings.

However, it seems that he will go further and further down the path of exterminating his race in the future.

"Now, it's time to go to the next place..."

This was Chen Yao's first time cultivating. Although the soul power contained within his body was terrifying, he didn't know what level he had reached before obtaining the soul ring and unsealing that soul power.

Therefore, after absorbing the spirit ring, he did not intend to stop. He stood up and set off to find the next habitat of a dark spirit beast so that he could complete the configuration of his spirit ring as soon as possible.

But just as Chen Yao was about to take a step, he suddenly stopped, his gaze drawn to an object on the ground.

That was the core of the Soul Shadow Beast. Logically speaking, when the Soul Shadow Beast dies, its core should shatter. However, this core was intact and shone with a faint glow.

Chen Yao bent down and picked up the core, holding it in his hand. He raised his eyebrows slightly and subconsciously exerted great force, but he couldn't damage it in the slightest.

"It's like the characteristics of a soul bone, but do soul beasts without flesh and blood corpses also have soul bones?"

Chen Yao was puzzled, so he opened the Spirit Hall's records in his soul tool, found the category of energy soul beasts, and began to study them.

"After an energy soul beast dies, there is a one in ten thousand chance that it will gather its energy into its core and form a core-type soul bone."

The output is comparable to that of external soul bones.

Because energy spirit beasts are ethereal and elusive, their spirit bones are also extremely strange.

It needs to be refined in the same way as absorbing a soul ring. Afterward, the core soul bone will be attached to the body as a new bone, according to the user's wishes.

As for the function of this core soul bone, it will exhibit different abilities depending on the different bone locations from which it is derived, making it diverse and very likely to grant abilities that are not helpful to oneself.

However, with a bit of luck, it might even yield performance more practical than an external soul bone?

Chen Yao silently recited each word from the records in the ancient text.

Then, Chen Yao raised his eyes and looked at the core soul bone in his hand.

"It does seem to be a good thing. So, it can be refined by absorbing spirit rings..."

Chen Yao muttered something to himself, then, as usual, first used the Black Zhe sword to cleanse the core soul bone, and then began to refine it...

Chen Yao absorbed the soul bone produced by a nearly thousand-year-old Soul Shadow Beast without any difficulty, and after a moment he slowly opened his eyes.

However, there was no joy on his face. Instead, he looked down at his waist and his expression became somewhat strange.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 71 Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, Level Consolidation

Chen Yao never expected that he could attach a soul bone there!

This is a soul bone derived from one's inner thoughts.

Not long ago, Chen Yao had refined two million-year-old divine soul bones, so when he was refining them just now, he really couldn't figure out what the core soul bone would produce that could enhance his strength.

Chen Yao simply emptied his mind and let it develop naturally.

But unexpectedly, a bone that shouldn't have existed was created.

As we all know, the foundation of a man's strength does not lie in bones, but rather in muscles, nerves, and blood vessels that make him strong.

But now, Chen Yao has a bone added to his muscles, which is equivalent to having a support.

In other words, he can not only control the expansion of his muscles at will, making them as hard as steel and as responsive as his own limbs, but also recreate the Wheel-Turning Technique that once wreaked havoc on the court.

And even when he was exhausted, he could still maintain his strength for a long time.

For a moment, Chen Yao was both amused and exasperated.

Good news, his fighting ability has indeed increased.

Bad news, the points were added incorrectly.

"Well, something is better than nothing. This should be considered a genuine Supreme Bone, right? With such formidable combat power, who else but me deserves the title of Supreme?"

As he pondered, Chen Yao, with a smug smile on his face, straightened his back, like a sword that had not yet been unsheathed but contained destructive power, and strode towards the outside of the cave.

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Two months passed in the blink of an eye. During this time, Chen Yao traveled to various habitats of dark soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, and the number of soul beasts that died at his hands was unknown.

Similarly, it was also the 43,000-year fourth soul ring condensed from over a thousand dark plant-type soul beasts, Youpeng.

Then, the fifth spirit ring, formed from the spirit rings of nearly 5000 mournful night crows, reached 69,000 years.

At this moment, Chen Yao, who was already level 60, was standing in a hollowed-out cave that was suspended high on a steep rock wall.

Standing in the spacious cave, which was almost like a small square, yet looked as if it had been bombed and was now ravaged.

Chen Yao gazed at the three enormous, lifeless corpses that resembled small mountains ahead, a chilling smile on his face and a sinister glint in his eyes.

These three corpses were a type of dark-attribute dragon-like soul beast called the Evil Wraith.

This was not originally part of Chen Yao's plan.

However, after obtaining his fifth spirit ring and reaching level 60 in spirit power, Chen Yao's confidence increased significantly. Naturally, he no longer hesitated as much as when he first arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest and ventured deeper into the forest.

Just as Chen Yao was focused on the dark soul beasts that liked to bury themselves deep underground, a Wraith Wyvern flew overhead.

Chen Yao followed the trail of the evil dragon and arrived at the cave on the cliff.

Unexpectedly, they discovered that there were two other evil dragons inside the cave, each with a soul power of about 30,000 years.

Chen Yao was overjoyed at the sight, and his killing intent surged.

That's how we ended up in this situation.

Looking at the soul rings that had gathered together under the condensation of the black sage, their color turning blood-red, even Chen Yao's eyes flashed with a blood-red excitement.

This is a soul ring that's been around for 100,000 years!

Then, suppressing his excitement, Chen Yao, as always, reversed the black stalks and cleansed the 100,000-year soul ring that had formed from the convergence.

However, seemingly due to the special nature of the soul skill, Hei Zhe only purified the dark energy in the soul ring, but preserved the resentful remnant souls of the three evil wyverns and sealed them within the soul ring.

As a result, the color of the spirit ring did not change towards that dark hue, but instead turned into a dark red, as if blood had congealed, deep and composed!

Chen Yao raised an eyebrow slightly, somewhat surprised, but without much hesitation, he stepped forward and reached out to touch the dark red soul ring.

The allure of a 100,000-year spirit ring is irresistible to any spirit master.

"Humph!"

A 100,000-year soul ring and a 10,000-year soul ring, though differing by only one word, are worlds apart.

Compared to the ease with which he absorbed the ten-thousand-year soul ring.

At that moment, as soon as Chen Yao touched the spirit ring and drew the energy contained within it into his body, he let out a muffled groan, and a trace of bright red blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.

However, this pain is still slightly less intense than the torment of those five years.

At this moment, Chen Yao grinned, his face contorted in agony, feeling the churning pain emanating from his body. A dazed look flashed across his eyes, a hint of reminiscence in them.

I endured the pain of body sculpting for five long years, with my flesh and blood constantly breaking down and being reshaped. This process was repeated countless times.

Chen Yao's mind had already become somewhat twisted because of this.

He just hasn't realized it yet.

Now, the pain of absorbing rings, which even titled Douluo fear, is like a unique kind of enjoyment in Chen Yao's eyes!

And so, amidst Chen Yao's sharp, piercing teeth grinding and low growls, the dark red spirit ring slowly hovered above his head, and his violent, chaotic spirit power gradually began to stabilize...

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Ten days later, the violent soul power lingering in the small square had not dissipated, and Chen Yao, who was sitting in the center, suddenly opened his eyes.